Flawed, detailed and awesome

Rating: 8/10 (2 August 2014)

This is a really good, original and cool action movie. The fights between the giant monsters and robots are awesome and the clear highlights of this movie. There is not really anything more I can really say about that. The other parts between the awesome fight scenes are not on the same level but are not bad. The plot is simple, gigantic monsters comes from an other dimension and ruins everything for us nice human beings and all of humanity comes together to stop the giant monsters from horribly murder us all by making giant robots. The story is a bit of a mess because there isn't much that makes sense and they do not really take time to explain anything and it reaches a level of so much doesn't make sense that it bothers me. Things like two people are needed to control the robots are good plot points but doesn't make any sense at all.
One thing I loved about the movie is that it is international. The characters are from all over the world and small things like the giant robots are called Jägers and the monsters Kajju makes me smile a bit. Loads of smaller details like that and more makes the movie unique. Details in the movie like how the world adapts to the threat of giant monsters, the Aussies dog mascot and the black market for giant monster body parts just says to me that they put a lot of thought into it when they made the movie.
The Characters are good. Not incredible, not great, but above what you usually see in action movies. All main characters are in some way flawed and has problems they have to overcome. The only characters that bothered me was the scientists who were really annoying and could have been done better.
Even if the movie has several flaws, it is an original and a great action movie. It doesn't have any depth like the dark knight but was really entertaining and I do not regret watching it.